Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for the [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there .
2 In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French .
3 Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water .
4 In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith .
5 The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ .
6 I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels .
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